When you're ready to digitize and organize that mountain of paper clutter, there are plenty of scanners on the market ready to help you out. Sure, you could use any old multifunction scanner/printer, but document scanners offer software integration with web services like Dropbox and Evernote, optical charcater recognition (OCR) to make your scanned documents searchable, one-touch operation, super fast page-per-minute scanning, and more. Last week, we asked you which scanners were the best for the job. Then we looked at the five best document scanners for going paperless. Now we're back to highlight the winner.

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Surging up from behind to take the lead late in the weekend was the Doxie Go, our own Adam Dachis' scanner of choice, bringing in 46% of the overall vote. It's fast, portable, and easy to use—and if its price point is a bit high, there are other Doxie models with similar features available.

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In second place with just shy of 21% of the vote was the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500/ScanSnap iX500, the venerable parent/child desktop scanner models that many of you praised for being stellar performers over the years, super-fast, and super-reliable. In third place with close to 19% of the vote was your smartphone's camera. In fourth with close to 9% of the overall vote was the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i, a smaller, more portable ScanSnap model with a lower price point but that still packs great features and software compatibility (not to mention support for Evernote, Dropbox, SugarSync, and more). Bringing up the read in fifth place was the Neat Scanner, with over 5% of the vote.

The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it's not because we hate it—it's because it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest, but if you have a favorite, we want to hear about it. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!